Coraline

R$ 107,90

Sinopse

Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house--a house so huge that other people live in it, too... round, old former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers ("We trod the boards, luvvy") and the mustachioed old man under the roof ("'The reason you cannot see the mouse circus,' said the man upstairs, 'is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed.'") Coraline contents herself for weeks with exploring the vast garden and grounds. But with a little rain she becomes bored--so bored that she begins to count everything blue (153), the windows (21), and the doors (14). And it is the 14th door that--sometimes blocked with a wall of bricks--opens up for Coraline into an entirely alternate universe. Now, if you're thinking fondly of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you're on the wrong track. Neil Gaiman's Coraline is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears. And, like Roald Dahl's work, it is delicious. What's on the other side of the door? A distorted-mirror world, containing presumably everything Coraline has ever dreamed of... people who pronounce her name correctly (not "Caroline"), delicious meals (not like her father's overblown "recipes"), an unusually pink and green bedroom (not like her dull one), and plenty of horrible (very un-boring) marvels, like a man made out of live rats. The creepiest part, however, is her mirrored parents, her "other mother" and her "other father"--people who look just like her own parents, but with big, shiny, black button eyes, paper-white skin... and a keen desire to keep her on their side of the door. To make creepy creepier, Coraline has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean. This delightful, funny, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale novel is about as fine as they come. Highly recommended.

Participantes

Autor: Neil Gaiman

Autor

NEIL GAIMAN

Mistério, fantasia, humor requintado. Eis as linhas que se entrelaçam nas tramas de Neil Gaiman — um convite a transpor a muralha da realidade, como fizera Tristan Thorn, protagonista de O mistério da estrela – Stardust, romance publicado originalmente em edição ilustrada, que deu origem ao filme homônimo de 2007. Inglês radicado nos EUA, Gaiman é reverenciado mundialmente pelos fãs de quadrinhos por suas graphic novels, como a série Sandman. Inquieto e multipremiado, ele também escreve prosa e poesia, além de atuar como jornalista, roteirista, compositor e dramaturgo. Leitor voraz na infância de C.S. Lewis e J. R. R. Tolkien, entre outros, ele diz que não seria quem é sem as bibliotecas onde cresceu. Ler, afinal, é essencial à fantasia.